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Under the Continuing Influence of Art

I write this update in Early January 2015.

2014 proved a busy year.
I showed my art at 23 venues - some small, some large - mostly of printmaking - but some of my photographic work too.
These exhibitions included one show in California, one in Kent but most in London.

I have continued with a series of Prints called "New Drawings" and by the end of 2014 there were approaching 200 subjects in this series. These are all of special buildings (well special to me anyway.) However, both through the process of commissions and partly as a personal need I have also been engaged in new work - some of these have been of larger scale and some just plain different.

I have Ongoing Exhibitions and Upcoming Exhibitions. These will be published soon.

I have continued to engage in "Street Photography" but (for lack of time) I have spent very little time in teaching it.  I have received requests to run Street Photography courses and at some later date, I am sure I will.

Andrew
10th January 2015

Street Photography Again

I work regularly with a group called the Amazings. I teach Street Photography to small groups - mostly in Hackney in East London.

I feel I have touched some of the people I "teach" but mine is a very personal intervention. I try not to be too stuffy in my teaching of photography and to let my students find out for themselves and about themselves. As one of my students reminded me a few days ago that it, "Really is amazing how everyone saw the same people, places and things yet captured so varied…" a selection of viewpoints.

I love street photography. I love as a subject of study and as something I do. At the time of writing I am currently posting Album 15 of "London in a Tough Light" on Facebook.  I try to post at least one photo a day on Facebook. So that is coming on for 1500 photos in that set alone.

"London in a Tough Light" is really a misnomer - to me it means London in a tough manner or London "warts and all." I love many of the individual photographs - but rather I feel I am showing my own (twisted?) viewpoint of my beloved city by means of a mosaic of images.  But people regularly comment on my work and the feedback that they give - gives me strength.

Street Photographer

It is odd to me that during the process of working I have discovered that I am:
An Artist,
A Printmaker,
A Photographer,
A Collector
and that one of the things I am is a "Street Photographer"

Fallen Angel, Gay Pride 020711 © Andrew Pegram 2012

Of course I have known about Cartier Bresson and Weegee for ever - but I recently stumbled upon the work of Vivian Maier. This is just wonderful.

http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/

I am not this good but some of my street photography is included in
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=26128&id=560410177&l=b458dd976b

Another Sort of Divine Decline

I have a series called Divine Decline.
My series is about the soft, sad deterioration of once beautiful buildings.
This turned into my book - also called "Divine Decline."
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2088746

Divine Decline - The Book

Another photographer: Kevin Bauman has recorded the "hulling out" of Detroit - the once proud home of Motown and of motor manufacturing for the USA.
http://www.kevinbauman.com/

More Influences

On attending the third annual Kyffin Williams Lecture
I discovered that while I was collecting work by Kyffin Williams (See below)
He had collected some of mine.

http://ajpegramartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Kyffin%20Williams

Influence and Admiration

These Artists have been important to me or in some way their work has influenced me. This is not a complete list and I feel sure that I could add to it and that with time the list would change.

At one time I would have listed the Impressionists and the like of Raphael, Rubens and Rembrandt but I note that I do not rush to look at their work so quickly now.

I have always hated the work of wispy Frenchmen such as Fragonard and Francois Boucher but I hold the work of Salvador Dali in a special place of loathing.